Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, author, and professional development facilitator based in Vermont. She teaches community college and graduate teacher education. Previously, she was a teacher and leader at an alternative therapeutic school. She is the co-founder of the Nurturing the Nurturers collective, a healing community for educators. Her first book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, is a bestseller at W.W. Norton. She is also a long-time ungrader!

Topics include

• How Alex’s personal background and professional experiences led to her interest in trauma-informed education

• How Alex defines trauma in the context of her work in schools

• How centering four “proactive priorities” can help schools move toward more equitable and trauma-informed systems and decisions

• How the proactive priorities can be used to make ungrading more equitable, inclusive, and trauma informed

• How teachers can collectively work to make change “at all levels of the system at the same time”

• Why grades can be a barrier to unconditional acceptance

Other resources

• Alex’s book: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

• Alex’s website: unconditionallearning.org